I will never be a blinkered cheerleader of anyone (ask my kids), and while I got his electability half wrong I would be doing him and the country a disservice by donning the white robes of worship and ignoring my concerns.

Electability is defined as a characteristic of the individual that allows him/her to appeal to a wide base of voters when the political skill and market skill of the individual is not public knowledge, where e=1(e=0) denotes an individual with high (low) electability.

Part 1 traces how black politics and black political scientists came of age: some chapter topics include liberalism and black political thought, white and black perceptions of the electability of black political candidates, and pioneering books on black politics, 1903-1965.

If John Kennedy's 1960 election broke the barrier that held back Catholics from becoming president, then might the nomination and potential election of a Mormon in 2012 be a harbinger for the electability one day--in 100 years, maybe--of a Jewish president?

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